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The Opportunity

As the largest mixed martial arts promotion company in the world, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) draws millions of fans to its events every week.

To help MMA enthusiasts stay engaged, UFC wanted to make it easy for fans to track live and broadcast events via their personal calendars. Since UFC’s fan base is highly active on social media, the company sought to promote its CalReply SmartCal offering across the very social channels its fans use most.

The Solution

UFC leveraged CalReply’s Social Marketing Automation tool to seamlessly schedule and programmatically post its SmartCal offering across UFC’s global social accounts. The tool made posting on social easy, allowing UFC to queue up multiple social posts at one time and automatically send them out from the CalReply dashboard.

By seamlessly integrating UFC’s calendar into social posts, UFC was able to generate subscriptions globally at scale while fueling greater brand engagement.

The User Experience

The Opportunity

With fans spanning more than 200 countries, Rugby World Cup is one of the most viewed sporting events globally. Since the World Cup is broadcast in more than 207 global territories, ensuring fans had accurate and localized tournament information at their fingertips was a core objective, but keeping fans updated about the latest semi-final and final matches posed logistical issues.

That’s why Rugby World Cup sought to partner with CalReply, to streamline the experience through a fan’s mobile calendar. CalReply’s solutions provided an immersive fan engagement experience by delivering accurate and localized broadcast details for every region.

The Solution

Recognizing Rugby World Cup’s widespread fan base, CalReply used its geolocation feature to detect users’ locations and send them calendar reminders with broadcast information specific to their country, time, and language. Once semi-final and final matches were scheduled, CalReply’s dynamic sync technology kept subscriber calendars updated with real-time information all the way to the championship match.

Rugby World Cup integrated CalReply’s technology into every facet of its marketing strategy, including website and mobile properties, the official RWC app, and social media so fans easily discovered the calendar opt-in opportunity. By launching three months before the first match, Rugby World Cup capitalized on the growing excitement and anticipation preceding the event, driving calendar subscriptions to record levels.

The User Experience

THE OPPORTUNITY

A leading US TV cable network (CalReply customer), understood that consumers now access content through a variety of platforms and are in more control of how and when they engage with their favorite programming. With CalReply’s technology, the network could strategically influence awareness and drive viewer engagement at key moments in time, at scale, across its linear and digital platforms.

Since the TV network’s programming aired simultaneously across linear and digital, as well as on demand, the network sought to streamline the experience for viewers while creating a new authoritative marketing tactic to stimulate recurring engagement. The network worked with CalReply to drive tune-in through programmatic calendar marketing.

CalReply recognized an opportunity to provide a TV Everywhere experience to the network’s subscribers through its Channel ID technology and deep-linking to streaming platforms.

THE SOLUTION

Understanding that a majority of its viewers have historically been reliant on the network’s website and mobile app to stay informed about new television episodes and catch-ups, the network activated all of it’s franchises with CalReply’s dynamic calendar marketing technology, thus building a programmatic brand extension into the viewer’s personal digital calendar.

Points of calendar subscription were integrated across all touchpoints including the network’s website show pages, EPG, mobile app, as well as across organic and paid social media, email marketing and on-air/video.

At the point of subscription, users were able to set event and reminder preferences for new episodes, on demand, or both.

CalReply’s Channel ID technology seeded personalized channel details and streaming deeplinks in every calendar episode and tune-in notification, enabling subscribers to find content with ease.

THE OPPORTUNITY

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